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Exposure management startup ArmorCode Inc. today used Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas to detail an expansion of its agentic artificial intelligence platform, adding four planned agents and three new sources of context aimed at narrowing what security teams remediate and …
Palantir shares jump 12% as revenue nearly doubles and guidance climbs again
Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. surged more than 12% in late trading today after the big data analytics company crushed second-quarter expectations and raised its full-year guidance for the third consecutive quarter. For its fiscal 2026 second quarter that ended on June …
Horizon3.ai raises $250M at $2B-plus valuation for autonomous pentesting
Autonomous security solutions startup Horizon3.ai Inc. today announced it has raised $250 million in a Series E round on a valuation of more than $2 billion to build out its sales operation and expand into Australia and Singapore. Horizon3.ai closed its Series D in …
Exclusive: Terra Security’s Prevention writes the firewall rules to block proven exploits
Offensive security startup Terra Security Inc. today launched Prevention, a feature that writes the firewall rules needed to block an attack its artificial intelligence agents have already proven works. Prevention is available now. Terra built it for the gap between a confirmed …
Cato Networks launches Agentic Threat Prevention to counter AI-assisted attacks
Networking and security company Cato Networks Ltd. today introduced Cato Agentic Threat Prevention, a capability that uses autonomous agents to predict the route an attacker is likely to take through a customer’s network. Protections for that specific environment are then generated and …
CrowdStrike finds AI systems under direct attack as exploit windows shrink
Artificial intelligence has become a target for attackers rather than only a tool they use, according to CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s “2026 Threat Hunting Report,” released today. The annual report draws on observations from CrowdStrike’s OverWatch threat hunting team and intelligence analysts tracking …
OpenAI’s Astra solves 10 long-open math problems and publishes the proofs
OpenAI Group PBC revealed Saturday that an internal version of Astra, the model family it calls its next major release, produced new results for 10 problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science that had been open for at least a decade, and …
Okta to acquire Permiso Security in reported $200M identity security deal
Okta Inc. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security Inc., a startup whose software hunts for attackers abusing identities across cloud accounts, software-as-a-service applications and, more recently, artificial intelligence agents. No price was announced. A person with …
Coinbase shares slide as revenue and earnings miss despite record market share
Shares in Coinbase Global Inc. fell more than 5% in extended trading today after the cryptocurrency exchange missed Wall Street targets on both revenue and earnings, with falling token prices and multi-year lows in volatility gutting its trading business. For its second …
Exclusive: Upwind adds context scanning for AI agents as AI DR hits general availability
Cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today unveiled AI Agent Context Scanner, which inspects the instructions, tools and connections feeding artificial intelligence agents before those agents act on them. The company also moved its AI Detection & Response service, or AI DR, …